There are two things that are really strange to watch in Japanese: sportscasters giving the play-by-play of an American football ...
The Japanese are very good at taking outside culture and adapting it to fit their own needs, and they have ...
No study of pop Japanology can be complete without exploring the twin concepts of giri and ninjo (義理と人情）, which crop ...
Anyone who's ever worked in a Japanese organization for any length of time probably knows the frustration of having a ...
Japan is numbly watching the aftermath of the sad events at Virginia Tech as they unfold. Much like Europe, it's ...
You probably know that they do Valentine's Day a little differently in Japan than in the West. Here, Feb. 14th ...
Today is a holiday in Japan, Seijin-no-hi, or Coming of Age Day. Venture into any Japanese city right now and ...
J-List is based in a small city in central Japan, about 100 km north of Tokyo, and it has a ...
My son has joined the millions of Japanese kids who attend a juku, the famous cram schools where students go ...
One of the preconceptions I had before coming to Japan was that there were no guns here at all, so ...
Hello all. I'm running later than usual because my dentist needed to fix my teeth today, Wednesday, rather than Tuesday, ...
Hello again from Japan, the home of Melon Soda, a popular soft drink here (good with vanilla ice cream in ...
One of the biggest surprises any foreigner living in Japan receives is when he sees his first Japanese right wingers, ...
Hello again from Japan, where buildings have funny names like "Apartment Cream Soda." We apologize for the delay with the ...
Hello again from J-List. Once again I've made the hop across the Pacific and am safely back in Japan. Of ...
Hello again from all of us in Japan!When you become bilingual in a language, you learn a lot about how ...
Hello again from your friends in Japan! As you probably know, the Japanese take their shoes off when entering homes ...
Hello again from Japan, where an athlete is a "sportsman," a still photographer is a "cameraman" and an employee at ...
Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! Japan is currently in shock over the murder of four-year-old Shun Tanemoto ...
Hello and TGIF from your friends in Japan! Transliteration is the act of transcribing from one writing system into another, ...
Hello again from your friends at J-List. Pardon any typing mistakes I might make today -- the J-List office construction ...
Hi again from Japan, where you bow to drivers when they give you the right of way (and I do ...
Hello, where in children's games like Hide and Seek or Tag, the person who is "it" is referred to as ...
Hello again from your friends in Japan! Influenza is on the rise in Japan, and schools all around the country ...
